How Much Longer Alec Baldwin Plans To Play Donald Trump On SNL By jessica rawden Although Alec Baldwin seemed to be having a ball when talking about his Donald Trump impression the other night on Jimmy Kimmel Live! We’ll let you know if and when Alec Baldwin announces the retirement of his Donald Trump impersonation. During a recent appearance on Extra!, Alec Baldwin finally revealed the gist of how long he plans to continue playing Donald Trump on NBC’s long-running sketch comedy series. The impression has potentially put Alec Baldwin into more of the spotlight politically than he intended to be. I don’t know what’s changed over the past few weeks, but apparently Alec Baldwin doesn’t seem to find as much levity in the current White House administration, anymore.

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Baldwin’s impersonation depicts the man as at once buffoonish, dishonest, and incomparably self-obsessed—not exactly stranger than fiction, in other words. For those who oppose the president—for the majority of the country, that is—the news coming out of the White House can feel ceaselessly, ever-increasingly bleak. “The maliciousness of this White House has people worried … that’s why I’m not going to do it much longer, the impersonation. I don’t know how much more people can take it.”AdvertisementUpon taking over for Darrell Hammond, Baldwin revealed an impersonation that proved to be uniquely irksome for then–presidential candidate Trump. Still from NBC.comAlec Baldwin may not be playing the president for much longer.

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Should Alec Baldwin quit Donald Trump shtick? Make the call

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Vanity Fair pointed out that, when Baldwin hosted SNL last month, his ratings crushed those from when Trump hosted in 2015. var _ndnq = _ndnq || []; _ndnq.push([’embed’]);Alec Baldwin may stop doing his Donald Trump impersonation sooner rather than later. Baldwin is also doing satirical presidential memoir as Trump. Baldwin said he would be willing to do his impression at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, but “I don’t think that they want that.” Trump has already said he won’t be going. Baldwin told Mario Lopez from Extra on Monday that Trump “overwhelmingly lacks any kind of sportsmanship; he remains bitter and angry, and you want to look at him and you want to go, ‘You won!’”“The maliciousness of this White House has people very worried,” Baldwin said.